A 23-year-old man who fired a submachine gun into a crowded pub on Merseyside on Christmas Eve, killing a woman, has been jailed for life and told he will not be released until he is in his 70s.
Connor Chapman was convicted on Thursday at Liverpool Crown Court of the murder of Elle Edwards, 26, a beautician, who was shot in the Lighthouse Inn in Wallasey Village on Dec. 24, 2022.
The judge, Mr. Justice Goose, said Ms. Edwards was a “wholly innocent bystander” who was killed when Chapman fired into the pub with a Skorpion sub-machine gun.
The trial heard the shooting was the climax of a bitter war between two rival organised crime gangs on The Wirral, one from the Woodchurch estate, and the other from the Beechwood estate on the other side of the M57 motorway….